A 15-year-old boy allegedly shot Boston Bengals Pop Warner football coach Myron Stovell in the leg yesterday afternoon. Stovell was at Washington Park in Roxbury to lead a team practice.
Why? A witness told the Globe that the teenager and Stovell got in a fight over something Stovell may have done to the kid's dog: "'He hit the kid's dog, that's why they did it to him. He hit their dog, and they came onto the field," said Jenn Reed, the events coordinator for the Boston Bengals, who was at the practice field when the shooting occurred but did not directly witness it."
It could have been worse. Stovell was outnumbered in the altercation. According to police, four alleged gang members confronted him, but he was hit only once.
The shooter wasn't that much older than the kids on the football team, who are all around 10 years old. Stovell is also considered a pillar of the community. One witness told Fox 25, "He is God in this community."
Commish Ed Davis immediately upped police presence in District B2 (Roxbury) and said that those involved should be "scorned by their families," which is a really weird way of saying that anyone who knows something should pass the info along to police.
Pop Warner logo from the league's official site.
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